GENERATION NINE-ELEVEN:

Are UC-Berkeley frosh turning liberal again?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/27/BAGS0B12B31.DTL

[ Comment by TBL:
In the 60s and early 70s, students moved leftward because of the
black Civil Rights movement,
and opposition to the Vietnam War and the military draft.
In the late 70s, some " new left" activists turned from politics
to Asian spirituality.

Meanwhile, most mainstream students reverted to their traditional (pre-60s) campus attitude --
called " student apathy"
(that is, concentrating on their personal lives and academic work,
to the dismay of activists).

Then came 9/11 and Bush the Lesser,
and his two wars ( so far, with more possible...).

Those who were under 30 on 11 September 2001
could be called "Generation Nine-Eleven".

Will they turn right or left?

Stay tuned.... ]
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reprinted from IndyBay:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/01/1718044.php
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QUEERDOM'S ATTIC --

Chron profiles collections held by our queer historical society


http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/archive/2005/01/29/ARCHIVE.TMP

[.........] "There's a disability we're constantly trying to overcome:
a lack of connection to our past," said Martin Meeker, a historian at
UC Berkeley, who estimated that three-fourths of the material in his forthcoming book about gays and lesbians in the 1940s to 1970s came from the archive.

Someone like Willie Walker, a Historical Society founder who recently died, might not be a conventional social activist, "but in seeking to recover and preserve those parts of the past, he in fact becomes a very important activist. Because a people without a past are not a people," Meeker said. " [.........]


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